The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-03-03


his soul about the legal price of print
ing. In recent issue of his paper,
Cappeller said:
"But these Doodle papers have been fully aware of
the fact that they receive three four times as
much for legal advertising for commercial adver-
tising.n
The idea of Cappeller talking about
"boodle" is so ridiculously funny that
merriment suppresses indignation at
his incomprehensible cheek. He is
holding position under Gov. Foraker,
that of Commissioner Of Railroads
and Telegraphs, at salary Of $4,000
per annum. We shall wait and see if
he refunds three-fourths of all the
salary that he is entitled to by law.
We can find hundred men who will
take the place at $500. He was Au-
ditor of Hamilton county, but we
haye never been able to hear of his
having refused to take every cent the
law allowed him for his services, nor
of his having complained of the lib
erality of the law We believe Mr..
Cappeller is stockholder in the
American Press Association" of
Cincinnati, an organization that
makes business of furnishing patent
boiler-plate matter to country papers.
All that is accomplished by this RI
diculous stuff is to throw country
printers out of employment, and the
only reason that country publishers
use it is because they can saw Gin
cinnati block of dead matter in two.
sooner and cheaper than they can
hire poor printer to set live matter
So, Cappeller profits by the country
printers retrenchment, or rather
meanness, in that he sells him the
plates, then turns about and demands
that the country printer becomes a
'rat," or 'scab," as he would bt
styled by the printers, and in case the
country printer refuses to so debase
himself, he is called "boodler," by
the very man who is getting money
that ought to be paid to country
printers! Take the fellow who prates
about ''robbing the taxpayers" and
put him into any Office, from Con-
gresham down to Constable, and he
will contend for the last nickel that
can be collected by law.
Now, as to the man Cappeller. he
may be a very good, well-meaning
man. But as to his talk about
"boodle," we will only remark that we
were a member of the Republican
Executive Committee last year, and
watched very closely the conduct OF
the campaign. as well as some other
things that have occurred since, and
while we were well pleased with the
result, we do trust that our Mansfield
and Cincinnati friend will not again
accuse the country press OF being
"boodlers." We may remark incl
dentally and parenthetically, how
ever, that the country papers of the
State last year were filled with miser-
able patent-plate bosh from Cincin-
natl, and that this matter was fur
nished by the State Committee. and
that Mr.. Cappeller was Chairman Of
the State Committee. We know what
we are talking about, for we had an
urgent letter asking us to use this
patent trash, the letter-or rather
circular-bearing Cappeller's sigma
ture as Chairman. And we know
where some of the money that paid
for the plates came from. But this
is not all. 1t is fully enough, though,
to satisfy our readers as to the kind
of people the cry of 'boodle" comes
from. If we should hear anything
further from Mr.. Cappeller upon this
subject, we may be induced to go a
little further into the discussion of
this doodle question. We will only
add, just now, that it is this kind of
politicians-they who are constantly
seeking the offices and the salaries
that cries doodle" And the men
they cry out against are generally the
hard-working politicians who make
the success of the party possible. We
are not very sure but lighted torch
may be thrown into some very COM
bustible material, if we hear much
more of this 'boodle" business. This
class Of Reformers is what makes
Ohio an uncertain State, and drives
good men out of the party. Show us
man who cries doodle" and we'll
show you a man who is politician
for revenue only, in that ne is a con-
slant and persistent office-seeker.
County Solicitor Smith applied for an early hear
ing the of the County Commissioners against
W. s. Capeller, to recover amount approximating,
principal and interest, SlO000 he is alleged to
have retained a member of the County and Annual
oF of tur OinUi tO he